Group Health & Safety Specialist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Strategic /Corporate

The post holder is competent person under the terms of Regulation 7 of the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and is responsible for ensuring organisational compliance with statutory duties. The post holder is the lead role in the organisation for all matters of health & safety and associated underpinning legislative requirements.

Ensure the board has oversight over critical health & safety issues through direct board reports and Health & Safety Group Committee.

Be accountable for the provision of expert health & safety advice and input into strategic issues including the development and implementation of strategy and policy.

Provide advice to the Directors, Managers and staff of both Trusts in relation to health & safety, recognising and bearing in mind the complexity of organisational issues and associated risk.

Develop, implement, and deliver of the Trusts Health and Safety Strategy.

Play a key role in steering the strategic direction for health & safety within the Organisation.

Lead on the improvement of a health & safety culture and health and safety systems within the organisation.

Support to develop a culture which positively promotes learning from health & safety incidents and staff feedback.

Develop and promote professionalism and forge relationships with health care professionals and non-clinical staff, to improve health & safety.

Provide a supportive and visible, presence that staff and others can turn to for assistance, advice, and support in improving, engaging and compliance with health & safety.

Policy

To develop and implement policies which support effective Health & safety practice.

Support the Deputy Director of Assurance to ensure the development and implementation of corporate policies for health & safety management, which will support achievement of statutory and national standards.

Support the Deputy Director of Assurance to lead and direct operational of health & safety trust wide offering advice about current practice of health & safety and service development.

Through Policy development and monitoring, implement a coordinated approach to the management of health & safety throughout the Trust.

Interpret and assess the relevance of national guidance/specialist policy and guidance, providing guidance and support to the Trust and operational Teams regarding implementation.

Embed learning from all health & safety incidents/events into policy development.

Work with Trust Policy Governance leads to ensure equality & accessibility of policies and any health & safety legislative requirements are considered as appropriate.

Health & safety Performance

Work with the specialist corporate leads with HSE legislative lead areas across the Trust teams to ensure appropriate linkages with health & safety work programmes that enable positive engagement and assurance in line with HSE, National Policies and best practice. This will require complimentary team working on complex issues across the wider health system.

Lead on the organisation wide implementation of learning from themes or trends that are identified through health & safety data ensuring that lessons are learnt, there is appropriate focus on corrective action including effective systems for evaluation of learning/improvement.

Lead and support, health & safety improvement activity and ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all health & safety processes.

Promote health & safety thinking beyond transactional management into business as usual, through policy, audit, and assurance.

Direct and support teams to define their priorities for health & safety improvement through a structured programme of work.

Direct and support Trust Leads, Policy, and process for RIDDOR Incident Management and investigation to ensure maximised learning and developing this approach in line with the HSE requirements.

Lead on ensuring learning from complaints, claims, audits, etc is triangulated with health & safety data so that risk areas are known and effectively managed.

Analyse and triangulate complex health & safety information at different levels (Trust/Division/Directorate) and alert the Division/Director/Board of any rising trends and hotspots, suggesting viable options for reduction and/or correction.

Liaise with relevant individuals/organisations/specialists to promote health & safety effectiveness.

Be responsible for the provision of expert health & safety advice and input into strategic issues including the development and implementation of the Trusts Quality, Safety, Assurance and Health & safety priorities.

Lead on the development of a culture which embeds openness and encourages transparency relating to health & safety processes and procedures.

Develop and deliver comprehensive and complimentary training packages for staff at all levels in relation to the health & safety agenda and TNA.

Have knowledge and understanding of the Equalities Act 2010, including the importance of collecting and analysing data on protected characteristics, and wider understanding of the impact of discrimination and bias on the safety of staff and public.

Management, Communication and Relationships

Line Management of the Health & safety Team(s

To manage a budget or provide financial stewardship for budget costs as required by the role, where significant responsibility over different departments and/or services and where the responsibility covers large and or/multi stranded financial/physical services.

Establish and maintain effective communication systems between internal and external stakeholders.

Scope and improve on effective methods of communication across the organisation, incorporating multiple methods of communicating learning across teams /divisions/roles.

Work with all team members Corporate, Directorate and Divisional Management Teams to ensure safe systems of work are in place for the delivery of staff and public.

Develop and promote professionalism and forge relationships with health care professionals and non-clinical staff, in order to improve health & safety.

Provide advice to staff at all levels of the organisation on specific / complex / clinical/non-clinical based / professional issues in relation to health & safety, e.g. statutory responsibilities, national standards, compliance enabling a constructive outcome to be achieved.

Proactively keep abreast of health & safety requirements and evidence and communicate these effectively to a variety of audiences anticipating barriers to communication and taking action to improve communication.

Liaise with professional bodies, local representative organisations, key stakeholders as appropriate.

Responsible for a range of policy implementation and policy development for corporate health & safety across the organisation.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Masters (or Equivalent Experience)
• Chartered NEBOSH or CMIOSH

Desirable

• At least 2 years NHS experience in similar role
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Teacher/training qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Address

New Cross Hopsital

Wednesfield

Wolverhampton

WV10 0QP

Employer's website

https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)